Balkan Powder Keg in the Mediterranean War Watch
Reports from Ankara indicate Romania has sought armistice terms with the Allies while Turkey grows closer to the United Nations. Brig. Gen. Richard G. Tindell becomes American military attaché in Ankara and Turkish fliers are sent to the U.S. for training as Allied moves in the eastern Mediterranean intensify.
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Mediterranean
Italy
Balkans
Ankara
Romania
Turkey
United Nations
Richard G. Tindell
America
Pantelleria
Rome
Syria
Crete
Dodecanese Islands
Greece
Bureaucrats Get War Agency Funding Backing
The house appropriations committee approved 18 civilian war agency funding totaling 2,030,441,604 dollars, praising the bureaus including the Office of Price Administration and the Office of War Information while acknowledging past and future mistakes. The report urged support, saying criticism without full understanding harms the war effort.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House Appropriations Committee
Office of Price Administration
Office of War Information
United States
Navy cancels Elk Hills oil pact amid legality ruling
Secretary Knox announced the cancellation of the Navy’s contract with Standard Oil of California to operate the Elk Hills naval oil reserve after a Justice Department ruling said the arrangement exceeded legal authority. Assistant Attorney General Littell testified a White House report found the agreement unlawful and invalid, while Colonel Knox said no improprieties were involved by either party.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Department
Standard Oil Company of California
Elk Hills Naval Oil Reserve
Frank Knox
Department of Justice
Navy
Norman H. Littell
House Public Lands Committee
Department
White House
Knox
Government calls loans on 47 million bushels of corn
The government formally called 47 million bushels of 1942 crop corn loans effective July 15 as an immediate palliative in the growing corn supply crisis. Earlier grain deliveries through 1936–41 loans aided two closed processing plants, while the CCC warned 25 million bushels of privately owned corn could be seized if not moved from farms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
War Food Administration and
Commodity Credit Corporation
Corn Industries Research Foundation
J. B. Hutson
Orel Front Sees Heavy Fighting and Counterattacks
Russian defenders beat off eight German counter-attacks near a newly won bridgehead in the Orel sector as heavy battles rage around Mtsensk. Soviet air forces disrupt rail junctions Roslavl Unecia Vladislavoka Novo nybkhov to hamper German reinforcements. In the Pacific, American planes claim a 77 to 6 air victory over Guadalcanal, while Kendari raids damage Japanese airfields. Chiang Kai-shek reports Japanese use of poison gas in Suiuan province and claims further successes south of the Yangtze River.
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Orel
Moscow
Kharkov
Mtsensk
Bryansk-Orel-Smolensk
Roslavl
Unecia
Vladislavoka
Novonybkhov
Pacific
Solomons
Guadalcanal
Army
Navy
Marine
Kendari
Celebes Sland
Darwin
Australa
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Suiuan
Chiang
Yangtze River
New York Laundries Halt Over Six Shirts Per Week
Highlights from the week’s news note that New York laundries will no longer accept more than six shirts per family weekly, signaling a shift in fashion and apparel norms. The report lists related wartime and international developments, including air force updates and diplomatic moves.
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New York
Treasury Budget Shift and Rationing Plans Revealed
Secretary Morgenthau said 1944 tax take could be 12 billion dollars instead of 16, while overall tax bills rise to about 80 billion. Treasury aims to fund half annual war costs as we go and plans to present revenue measures before summer recess. Louis Kroeger of OPA outlined eight new rationing programs, with two starting soon covering cooking and heating stoves and an institutional food allotment system.
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Henry Morgenthau
Treasury
Congress
Treaury
Morgenthau
Roosevelt
Louis J. Kroeger
OPA
Office of Price Administration
Kroeger
Stalin pledges aid to restore Poland after war
Premier Stalin assured postwar support for a strong independent Poland in a message to Polish patriots in Russia. Observers noted the Polish government in exile had no role in the exchanges. Russia broke off relations with Sikorski's London group amid mutual accusations of executions and espionage.
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Poland
Josef Stalin
Russia
Stalin
Congress
Soviet Union
Sikorski
London
Air Blitz Continues Across Europe In Six Day Offensive
Allied bomber fleets hammered nine major German cities including Cologne Dusseldorf Munster and Kiel while targeting Bremen Bochum Wilhelmshaven Cuxhaven Oberhausen. In the Mediterranean American and British air forces bombed five Italian air bases in Sicily amid tough fighter opposition and heavy anti aircraft fire with Pantelleria showing less Axis resistance.
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George V
North Africa
United Nations
Europe
Mediterranean
Cologne
Dusseldorf
Munster
Wilhelmshaven
Cuxhaven
Bremen
Bochum
Reich
Sicily
Pantelleria
Roosevelt praises The Little Prince in wartime Italy essay
Washington observers report President Roosevelt reading a typewritten note to correspondents about Italy’s wartime conduct and the philosophy behind postwar governance. The feature reviews Antoine de Saint Exupéry's The Little Prince as a hopeful fairy tale guiding nations and people toward humane rebuilding after Pantelleria’s storied siege and a vast bombing campaign.
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WNU Service
Union Trust
Washington, D. C
White House
Roosevelt
Pantelleria
Italy
Antoine de Saint Exupery
Saint-Exuperys
South America
Arras
Hock
Africa
Government payroll overrun prompts reform plan
A joint congressional committee on reductions of nonessential federal expenditures urges the Civil Service Commission to cut unnecessary personnel. It cites wasteful practices and says the merit system has been impaired. The report calls for a complete reorganization of personnel servicing and management to curb excess staffing. AR GOODS Allies Double Axis: WPB chair Donald Nelson says Allied production tops Axis, with the United Nations and Congress informed that war goods amount to 125 billion dollars annually, rising toward 90 billion in 1944.
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Congressional
Civil Service Commission
WPB
Donald Nelson
United Nations
House Appropriations Committee
Brief military notes from wartime dispatches
Soldiers average eight railroad moves from induction to overseas embarkation. In Algiers General Giraud reports German students stir unrest. a Gestapo agent is stationed at every university. The Baltic Gauleiter orders removal of church bells as mobilization. Germans told to rush new underground shelters as existing air raid shelters offer limited protection from Allied heavy bombs.
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Radio Wrance
Henri Giraud
Algiers
Gestapo
Baltic States
Far East War Focus and Government Salary Reform
Washington notes a shift to stronger Far East operations as Churchill and Roosevelt align on pressing Japan. Secret commitments by Britain lead to multi direction pressure on Tokyo. A column urges reform of Civil Service pay to reduce waste, arguing reclassification inflates salaries and harms efficiency. Anecdotes about taxi drivers test honesty and a bogus torpedo plan to Hull illustrate public behavior angles.
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Washington
DD. C
Far Eastern
Far East
U. S
Churchill
Roosevelt
Pacific Islands
Tokyo
Nimitz
Pacific
Attu
Japan
Alaska
Australia
Burma
Central Pacific
Europe
Hitler
Asia
Uncle Sam
Jess
Colleges and congressmen from many schools named
Warvard Yale and Princeton may be represented in the state department yet Congress shows a grab bag of names. John Carroll University is linked to Michael A Feighan of Ohio, Baldwin Wallace College to Henderson H Carson of Ohio, Creighton University to Frank A Barrett of Wyoming, and Marshall College to Hobart Ellis of West Virginia.
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Warvard
Yale
Princeton
State Department
Congress
John Carroll University
Michael A. Feighan
Ohio
Haldwin Wallace College
Henderson H. Carson
Creighton University
Frank A. Barrett
Wyoming
Marshall College
Hobart
Ellis
West Virginia
Rug weaving revival with rag floor coverings
PsP Massy recalls old rag rug floors while noting a flourishing local weaver tradition. Modern weavers offer varied warp colors for sewn rags. about 1 3/4 pounds of rags yield a square yard. Use cotton or wool, not both, trim hems, dye whites to desired colors, and explore designs in Books 5 7 10 with examples from felt hats and pennants.
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Massy
Destroyer Escort Ships Boost Merits for Convoy Defense
The new destroyer escort ships will aid submarine menace elimination by mass production. They carry depth charges cannon torpedoes and anti aircraft guns and can run long convoy trips at about a fourth the cost of destroyers.
Fowl Bullets Test Bird-Proof Windshields
An experimental test fires fowl at high speed against glass panels to evaluate newly developed bird-proof airplane windshields, examining impact resistance and structural integrity.
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Waibens
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Balkan
George BE. Stratumeyer
U. S. Air Staff
C. D. Howe
Argentina
Republic of the
Edelmire J. Farrel
Air
Washington Digest
Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Little Prince
Baukhage
The
Sahara
Exupery
Earth
Philosophy of
France
U.S.A
Mussolini
Pantelleria Island
Bankhage
Katherine C. Blackburn
Miss Blackburn
Ritz Carlton
Faye
Hull
Psp
Lapy
Jep Argtel Bepanstel
Ruth Wyeth Spears
Bedford Bills
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